Good Alternative to Irish Breakfast from Adaigo Teas?

Hey All,

I just joined today after finding a link to this site on Adaigo Teas. I’ve been drinking the Irish Breakfast for nearly 5 years now, and was curious if there are any lovers of this tea out there that have a similar favorite?

If you go on Upton Imports website, they have a British Blend Sampler-they sell a selection of small tins with a variety of English breakfast blends for $13 bucks… Descrription is below:

A tin (approx. 35g.) of each of the following teas: Bond Street English Breakfast (TB10), Finest Russian Caravan (TB70), Baker Street Afternoon Blend (TB75), and Richmond Park Blend (TB86). Specially blended for us in London by master tea blenders.

I’ve gone through a few tins of Adaigo’s Irish Breakfast myself ;) If you are looking for something around the same price point, try Upton’s River Shannon Blend. If you are willing to spend a little more, I think Golden Moon’s Irish Breakfast and English Breakfast are both really delicious and full bodied. I’ve also heard some great things about the Simple Leaf’s Mountain Malt – I just got some but I haven’t tried it yet. But it is spoken of VERY highly here :)

I would also endorse The Simple Leaf’s Mountain Malt as an excellent, strong breakfast tea with a lot of character. Their American Breakfast is another great breakfast tea – a little less character but smoother and harder to overdose on the leaves.

That blend includes Ceylon teas too, so you might experiment blending with a Kenilworth or Adawatte estate from Upton – those are my current Ceylons, and they are both good.